Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The summit of Mauna Kea on the Hawaiʻi Island hosts the world’s largest astronomical observatory for optical, infrared and submillimeter astronomy. But Mauna Kea has a much more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Volcanoes are among the most awe-inspiring forces of nature ...

The state of Arizona and its picturesque landscapes have been shaped by a geological history of volcano eruptions across the region. Some of the oldest volcanic rocks in the state are 1.8 billion ...

This picture shows Mount Pinatubo volcano in June 1991. The eruption killed more than 1,500 people and sent a cloud of ash into the atmosphere cooling world temperatures for years. A new study finds ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

The Moon has long been treated as a geologically dead world, a frozen relic that finished erupting billions of years ago. A wave of new data is now challenging that assumption, pointing instead to a ...

While volcanoes have brought profound changes to landscapes here on Earth, volcanic activity on other planets and moons has followed a different path. It's easy to imagine space volcanoes as even more ...

When you think of the United States, images of sprawling cities and vast landscapes might come to mind, but not the hidden and ever-present geological threat: volcanoes. While you might associate ...

Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...

A 4-billion-year-old volcano? New research finds that Io, the solar system’s most volcanically active moon, can brag just that. A recent study of Io’s sulfurous atmosphere suggests that Jupiter’s moon ...

HAWAII COUNTY, Hawaii (Island News) -- Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (HVNP) is sharing new images in honor of Black History Month. The images show the Buffalo Soldiers who built a trail between the ...